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red £18 im «+ {Than now that you have found vey, you must "her 2.8 2 + PAL my door I had to lefve Tilithy by 1 } e 3 in t give g her pro Lp a 5% again," whimpered and | make a di =E dreadfully afraid lest now me the slipjagain, mise on her honor > plaintive: 2 ¥ telling her that Lilith wae wait low in oad. To i k .goodness!" she éxclaimed. "And | her, Mr. Her: in my care. To night, we will at a hotel, and to morrow we will' > back to Bristol." h in "To-morrow, shrieked Mrs. Mor. "On the top of all this mad oon. . Hervey, you cannot be in' your t eensesl" oC is made up, will not trou ter to-n land clutohed her traveling: £4 hag Most) determined f you J really mean to" marry: Hervey, Ww 5 phan f her entirely, Tod ph my 5 0 oly, : moment I decline to see her. OE fhe tes treated both you and me abom- ining over the and Lt : é 1 shal lose by her flight, although I am much et need of 1" 1 said. "I will eit down now. and write' you a check for a hundred 1| dav. | save t | wae mine now, a1 said, "I shall "get u special license, and' ry Lilie a HM her!" land, 'dmot? Mr. 1 the same," I "with the] | Channel, sent down by. On thé way to to buy for ents, and a that lady, Ww) £0 io 8 | When we pot 1 folded her in pe . With me: % ' mo! joy 1 'close looking ul; at ly blush stole over "After all," she me more than any now you least is happy." CHAPT Heryev returned to abode in I and wanted to make in Mhiskere, who = 'or epectacl Ha 3 | Re ol ov | There was no one to give the bride 'away, but the clerk hastily vol 10 that office. Indeed, ious SE Er: nay Deb A the fog-laden building, and himself home bis. sarly dinner, that I am conving he d have drawn the line at nothi "the bride himself. oe for ria lon, HE burst into oe ion % 3 Be: oe Bony will my arms and. obv 20 Ro a EE 1} sobs such a dreadful gianni 17 tho combed. "And, all end?' & Worl oI ] d 'epont my . furnishing a her, but had al 'to take 1 would dispense with his services he pene "laid up with rheuma- | that "the church we had to ion into a linen-draper's ith a black jersey-bodice to wear instead of Mrs. land's y hat ins most inaudibly murmured 'the gervice. The fog was 80 ach other's anxious to prett; of the erly looking jet bonmet, also belong: , which Lilith had appro: 'speedily as pos. ; Ts <i er, could not even lay the flattering unc- tion to my soul that my wife wo 1 me in my absence. Some rich Americans, a mother and her son and daughter, vieit- 'ore at the hotel, were eo enormously tak- en with Lilith's beauty and ese that they offered to take entire.charge of her during my temporary absences, an offer I was only too glad to accept. > (To, be continued.) rere ; SIR J. A. M. AIKINS, K.B in Manitoba. ull th ae my wi at 1 in thie moment," I 3a to to me make you ory, when 'I to save you the least pain < see us in this kindly fog. QUT rms once rou me vou will try to love me just & ¥ ho obeyed with her me at fir 3 doeility, + Sia ut ually her St A RR En Gian d my neck, and her che ks. 5 sald, With something é laugh and a sigh, 'you wante ee ae thing in the world, and have me. So that one of us at ER XXIV. Sif months later, Mr. and Mre. Adrian Loalion waters, and took ~in Ii wat eo a OS aona vod and studio in the near vicin. | Park. : though sorely in in a hotel a every way wi uld y my t 'the e I love with all = ow 'that she is ? No el y recrossed the hy Tai J ® o tor by Royal Pr Manitoba. | Sra Am Aikins, KB. ' Canada College and Toronto Uni- versity, has spent the best part of successfully practiced law in the City of Winnipeg. * At the present time he is the senior barrister at [the Manitoba Bar and was in 1912 president of the Bar Association. career | gram 1879 until 1896 he was Mani- toba Counsel for the Department of Justice, and in 1880 he was one of Commissioners to inves- tigate and report on the administra- tion justice in the North-West He has been counsel the Government of Manitoba nce 1900, so that his remarks on boundary question inthe House regarded as an expression of s of that Government. Sir ppointed Q.C. in most of the pre- ed | Empire.' New Knight Spent Most of His Life Sir James A. M. Aikins, M.P., who was the recipient of a knight od | bachelorhood this, week, is the Hon. Clifford Sifton's successor in the representation of Brandon. ' He is a son of the late Hon. James Cox Aikins, who was appointed a Sena: amation at Con- federation, and who, from 1882 until 1886, was Lientenant-Governor of I Mr. Aiking, while born in Ontario and educated at Upper, "| bear fruit. his life in Manitoba, where he has' England must join France, | many, Russia and the lesser Euro- LW oT x 75 Orel > position as one of the leading pow- ersof theworld. . - Ey He predicts, indeed, that unless England does increase her armed forces she will cease to be consider- ed by France and Russia as a de- sirable. member of the triple en- tente, and will be left to shift for herself in the game of European diplomacy. His final conclusion is = 3 that "the time is at hand when we shall have to call India and the Dominions to our councils to survey the whole field of imperial strategy and to establish a defensive system adequate to the needs of an Oceanic In his survey of the growth of European armament, he says: x : What Germany is Doing. - "We naturally take stock in Ger- i| many first because this. power is al- ways forward in armament, and on Ye | the whole sets the pace which other ol-| powers 'have to live with if they can. There has been no slackening of German preparation for war, but quite the contrary. Now, as al- ways, the aim of Germany is to obtain the largest possible numeri- cal values consistent with quality and to acquire the utmost fighting efficiency at the shortest notice. The personnel of the German navy has been doubled in the last ten years and continues to expand. Three new German ships of Dreadnought type are to be commissioned this year, and by the autumn Germany will have in full commission a great fleet of battleships and battle cruis- ers of which only a few will not be- long to the Dreadnought type. Commerce raiding in war has been much fliseussed 30 Germany of late, and the retention of the battle cruiser type is probably not un- connected with this discussion. Army Increases, "If we turn to the German army we note that thé schemes of 1913 are in course of successful execu- {tion. Between July and October last the German administration had 'Ito take steps to receive over 60,000 more men and 21,000 more horses [than in 1912, and this was no light task. The difficulties were over- come and the new law begins to The army is still short of 3,000 officers, but it is expected that this deficit will be made good in two years. By the spring of 1915, when the second increased an- "I nual contingent will be not only incorporated but mobilizable, the German peace establishment will nearly have reached the figure of 870,000 of all ranks, and the law { should have received complete ap- plication by the end of the same year. The reserves will grow an- nually until they ultimately num- ber 5,400,000 fully trained mien. A large increase in the number of re- _servists called up for traiping this year enables ranks to be well'filled at any moment of danger. In France. : As to France, the writer says: «The covering troops on the Ger- man frontier are now sufficient to meet any type of attaque brusquee, and the peace strength of the French army as a whole no longer presents that dangerous inferiority to the German figure which former- ly caused such serious anxiety. At the same time, France is still much inferior to Germany in peace strength and has considerable forces tied up in North Africa. 'She is also beaten in the battle of re- serves, for the French system will eventually result in 1,200,000 fewer reserves than the German. : "France has done all' that is hu- manly possible to maintain her mili- tary position in the world and looks a paently to her allies and friends to support her in preserving 'the balance of power, not only on land, {but at sea. She possesses no very marked superiority over the Austro- | Italian na in the Mediterran- an, and rmanent presence of ong | fleet in this sea is of the necessities of the time. sia's Preparation. » ; not' been is committed to an ambitious and ussia--*'In view of the fact | th of armaments has ricted to the leading & "The grow military sta adds to her effectives on land, and COS = y ich is already paralleled and will proba- bly be surpassed by that of Italy. The Turko-Greek rivalry adds to the number of accountable battle- ships in the eastern Mediterranean, and there has been one more reform of the Turkish army. The Balkan Stathes are borrowing as much as they can get and are organizing fresh = forces--for example, the twelve divisions of Servia--as fast as their state of exhaustion permits. "Spain has plans for an army of 450,000 men and ga field army of 215,000 strong. Sweden is develop- ing her defensive preparations. The Netherlands, hankering after Dreadnoughts, are also busy with their coast defences, and anticipate higher expenditure upon their field army. Finally, Belgium is working up to a field army of 178,000 men. Look where we will armaments are growing and there is no symptoms anywhere of a change." ees ASSASSINATION OF RULERS. The Number Who Have Been Killed In Recent Years. Following is a list of rulers and Ministers assassinated since 1865: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, April 14, 1865: The Earl of Mayo, Governor: General of India, February 8, 1872. Abdul Aziz, Sultan of Turkey, Austria steadily | June 4, 1876. ly Bb Stanislaus Stambouloff, Prem of Bulgaria, July bo 1808. ©. _ Canovas del, Castille, Prime ister of Spain, August 8, 189 ~ Juan Idiarte Bo President Uruguay, August 25, 1807. Jose Maria Reyna Barrios, Presi- dent of Guatemala, Feb. 18, 1898. ' Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Sept. 10, 1898, on Humbert, King of Italy, July 29, 600. : William McKinley, President of the United States, Sept. 6, 1901. Alexander, King of Servia, and Queen Draga, June 11, 1903. Governor-General Bobrikoff, of Finland, June 186, 1904. : Von Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior, July 28, 1904. ' Carlos, King of Portugal, Feb. 1, 1908. Prince Ito, 1909. Yi Wan Yung, Premier of Korea, Dec. 21, 1909. Ramon Caceres, President of Santo Domingo, Nov. 19, 1911. Peter Stolypin, Premier of Rus- sia, Sept. 14, 1911. Jose Canalejas, Prime Minister of Spain, Nov. 12, 1912. Francis I. Madero, President of Mexico, Feb. 23, 1913. 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